(EDITORIAL) India had been divided into three zones when the Congress High Command approved of the acceptance of office. They had, so to speak, divided the country into three zones as good brothers, Vallabhai Patel, Rajendra Prasad and Maulana Abul Kalam Azad… [T]he Muslim divine was also the Rashtrapathi and supposed to be in charge of the Sind province. Whenever there was the least sign of the Muslim League forming a Ministry, the zonal dictator for that region would make a beeline for Karachi, set the Assembly members by the ears, frustrate the rights of the League and then return to Wardha for reporting purposes…[T]he habit of seeing dissensions in Sind has not died in the patriotic composition of Congressmen.

A Ministry does not remain in a state of inanimate existence, because there must be constant adjustment of ideas and methods. Even in the British Cabinet under the commanding authority of Mr. Churchill there are differences of opinion and occasional displacements of colleagues, so that we should not consider a stir in the Sind Ministry as the prelude to catastrophe. Hindu onlookers, however, exploit casual differences and eagerly predict that in a short while the Muslim League Ministries would fall like a spent rocket…

Published in Dawn, January 13th, 2020